Odd One In works with contemporary artists whose practices balance emotional resonance with visual clarity. We’re especially interested in work that feels personal yet universally relatable, art that captures modern emotions, identity, softness, humor, loneliness, love, and the small rituals of everyday life. Together, we transform these narratives into collectible objects designed to be lived with, carried, and kept close.
Shih-han Huang (Taiwan)
Creator of Mafia Bunny and Han Han. A new-generation artist and designer toy creator, her work spans painting, sculpture, and contemporary pop art. Best known for her “cats in disguise” characters.
Yoshikatsu Ikeuchi (Japan)
Yoshikatsu Ikeuchi is a Kyoto-born composer and visual artist whose practice moves between music, painting, and atmospheric image-making.
Huiqing Luo / creeploo (Hangzhou)
Based in Hangzhou, the artist captures the quiet beauty of daily life and dreamlike moments through soft, hazy brushstrokes. In her work, everyday objects are given a vivid and endearing presence, becoming gentle vessels for warmth, comfort, and tenderness.
HIZGI (Japan)
HIZGI is an illustrator dedicated to creating the cutest girls in the world. Drawing from a unique blend of fetish and kawaii aesthetics, she creates original characters through which she projects aspects of herself, developing a distinctive and highly personal visual world.
Matsui (Japan)
Matsui is a Japanese-born illustrator who was born in Aichi, Japan and now lives in Gifu. His creation with soft lines, friendly color and simple painting style, bring a fresh and warm feeling. His worksrange from plane to three-dimensional. Most of them focus on the interaction between dogs and humans, describing the warmth between people and pets.
Sherly Fan (New York)
A multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and immersive installation. Her practice explores vulnerability through the visual language of cuteness.
Hung-Ju Kan (New York)
Kan Hung-Ju is a Taiwan-born artist whose work explores the tension between density and emptiness through layered abstraction. Working across acrylic, mixed media, and textured surfaces, his paintings capture fleeting emotional states rather than fixed forms.
BOAT (South Korea)
BOAT is an artist and illustrator based in Seoul, South Korea. Born in Jeonju, she spent her early years in Incheon and attended Gyeonggi Arts High School. She later majored in Korean Painting at Dongguk University. Her diverse body of work encompasses fine art, illustration, art toys, and animation.
Wisut (Thailand)
Wisut Ponnimit is a Bangkok-based Thai manga artist best known as the creator of Mamuang. Blending manga, animation and music, his playful and emotionally resonant work has been exhibited across Thailand and Japan and recognized by the Japan Media Arts Festival.
Shinichiro Inui (Japan)
Born in Osaka in 1983 and inspired by street art, he paints on clothing and bags to experiment with new forms of art. To deepen his connection with art, he established the apparel brand guernika. Currently, he utilizes a variety of materials and techniques, including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, video, and fashion tools, to question contemporary society.
Seirim Yoon (New York)
Seirim Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. She works with the concept of past images that distort and fade due to the tricks of memory exploring the psychological concept of GestaltzerFall. By applying it to the process of recalling memories, she visualizes how they exist and evolve in our lives.
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